Maps Mania
@mapsmania.bsky.social
exploring the world though interactive maps
Want an unobstructed view of the setting sun? 🌇 Sunset Atlas uses elevation data and ray-casting algorithms to find the best places to watch the sunset. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-...
How to Find the Best Sunset Views
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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Trains and Termini It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a city in possession of a good railway network, must be in want of an animated train map. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/trai...
Mapping Musk's rocket strike on the moon. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/find...
The Hollowing of America - mapping how the populations of every US county and state have changed between 1980 and 2025 googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/mapp...
Mapping the Hollowing of the United States
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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Right now,7 billion people are awake while 2 billion are fast asleep. 🌍✨ Awake Globe is a stunning, interactive 3D map that visualizes the Earth's shifting rhythm of sleep & wakefulness in real time, tracking daylight, time zones, and population data. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/7-bi...
CastleGuessr - Can you tell your English forts from your French châteaux and your Japanese castles. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/cast...
CastleGuessr
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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SimCity London More AI map slop or proof that AI assisted maps still require real effort? googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/simc...
SimCity London: The Pixelated City
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Afraid of flying? You might want to skip this one! ✈️🗺️ CrashAtlas is an interactive map plotting thousands of aviation accidents around the world. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-wo...
A World of Plane Crashes
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Sim City San Francisco - isometric interactive maps of San Francisco & New York City. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/isom...
Isometric San Francisco
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Don't Miss the Eclipse! This map doesn't just show the path of totality but also calculates how the surrounding landscape affects your view of the eclipse. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/dont...
Don't Miss the Eclipse!
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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TripGeo has carried out a complete redesign of my Sonar City game. I'm not sure why but it has made it a lot more fun to play. www.tripgeo.com/sonarcity
Transforming the traditional tourist guide into an interactive adventure - with Bigfoot! googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/bigf...
The hidden geography of friendship 🌍 Why do St. Louis and Bosnia & Herzegovina share such remarkably strong social ties? The answer lies in history - and in this map that visualizes the friendship connections of social media. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
German Döner, English Curry, French Taco & American Pizza This is a fascinating analysis of restaurant names from OpenStreetMap to reveal where different types of cuisine are most popular. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/germ...
German Döner, English Curry & American Pizza
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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Eat Well, For Less - this map shows you where you can still find meals for under $10. The map's users submit new locations, vote on existing entries and keep prices up to date. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/mapp...
Mapping Meals Under $10
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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Optimal Road Trips 93,466 miles. 3,100 county seats. 1 optimal route 📍 Ever since 1954, mappers have been obsessively plotting mathematical road trips across the U.S. Here's a look at some of the best optimal road trip maps (and how to build your own): googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The Most Optimal Road Trip Maps
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The Many Maps of the Odyssey or Around the Aegean in Twenty Years Odysseus has finally overtaken Phileas Fogg in the fictional journey mapping stakes. Exploring the new wave of interactive maps charting Homer's epic voyage googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The Many Maps of the Odyssey
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Free Map Tiles for Everyone Maptoolkit joins OpenFreeMap & VersaTiles in offering digital map developers free map tiles. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/free...
Free Map Tiles for Everyone
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Can You Date the Map? Date the Globe challenges you to guess the exact year of a historical map using shifting borders and changing country names as your clues. 🌍 googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/can-...
How Close is Everything You Need? Close is an interactive travel-time map that lets you choose the amenities that matter most to you, then colours every US neighbourhood by the travel time to the furthest one. A clever new way to measure convenience. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-...
How Close is Everything You Need?
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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Street Names as Ranked by the Cloud This map colours streets based on how highly the 'cloud' rates the people, places or things that they are named after. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/stre...
Street Names - As Ranked by the Internet
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SimCity Meets AI NYCSim is an incredible browser-based digital twin of Manhattan, featuring 305k building footprints, live transit tracking, and 10,000 synthetic AI residents who react to real-time weather and news. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/simc...
🌍🌾👇 Over 640M people live in regions where food production has dropped by 10%+. By 2050, that could affect half the global population. This map uses the new CADI index to show exactly how - and where - climate change is leading to agricultural decline. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
Where does "downtown" actually begin and end? 📍 This new crowdsourced map 'Where is Downtown?' lets you draw your own boundaries of any city centre and compare your mental map with a collective heatmap of local consensus. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/wher...
Where's Downtown?
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This is Still Not Normal The relentless heat is pushing graphics desks to their limits as they struggle to map just how off-the-charts this summer has become. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/this...
This is Still Not Normal
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Fly the Real World Flight Sim Fly anywhere in the world. Complete jobs and buy better plans. Upload your own data to create cinematic tours. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/fly-...
Fly the Real World Flight Sim
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Waterworld - what level of sea level rise would we need until only the Andes and the Himalayas Islands are left? googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/wate...
